President Donald Trump's fiery interview with ABC has been described as 'tragic' as the president hit out at a journalist who claimed an image he shared on Truth Social was photoshopped.
The 78-year-old sat down with ABC News anchor Terry Moran in the Oval Office yesterday (April 29) to discuss his first 100 days in power, touching on the main talking points.
This naturally included Maryland dad Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, who was among the 250 alleged criminals mass deported to serve time in El Salvador's Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT).
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Kilmar has repeatedly claimed he has no gang affiliations, but on 21 April, Trump posted a picture of tattoos on the man's hand on Truth Social, which he says shows Kilmer 'had MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles'.
Trump claimed a marijuana leaf symbolised the letter M and a smiley face symbolised the letter S, alleging a cross and a skull covered up the number 13.
However, experts have disputed this, with one anonymous community activist telling CBS he's worked with gang members for 25 years and had never seen a tattoo like this symbolising MS-13.
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In the ABC News interview, Moran described the image as 'photoshopped', presumably pointing out how 'M S 1 3' had been added to the image above the tattoos to explain what authorities thought they meant.
Trump replied: "And you think it was photoshopped? Don't Photoshop it, go look at his hand.
"No, no, Terry, Terry. No, no he had MS as clear as you can be, not interpreted.
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"This is why people no longer believe the news because it is fake news.
"Terry, he has MS-13 on his knuckles. Okay? You do such a disservice, why don't you just say 'yes he does' and go onto something else."
People have been left dumbfounded at the fact that Trump continued to argue his case.
Taking to Reddit, one user wrote: "Dude gave him a million chances to not look like an absolute idiot lol"
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"His supporters believe everything is saying. Seems like people hear this and all they think is how crazy he sounds but don’t forget there’s a significant portion that hear these and don’t think anything is off," typed a second.
A third simply penned: "God that was tragic."
"This is nuts. He actually thinks the text is real," a third added in part.
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Another added: "Mind-blowing arrogance and stupidity on display."
While someone laughed: "Like I just assumed they would say “oh we put that there to translate the tattoo” not that it actually said ms13 in f**king times new Roman."
Topics: Donald Trump, El Salvador, Politics
Joe Yates